the latest news in the week's top stories in gaza claims victory despite a dozens of civilians. short of an invasion after an eight day bombing campaign. cairo sees a third day of clashes with. crowds as protests continue over a decree president morsi unprecedented powers. pro independence parties are claiming a victory in the catalonia elections a with a ninety eight percent of the votes counted paving the way for a referendum that could see spain's richest region go its own way. and. divisions between member states emerge at this summit in brussels over whether to spend or save another meeting has been scheduled for next year.

stories this is r t with our weekly report glad to have you with us god is recovering from israel's anti hamas campaign of this week with amy gyptian brokered cease fire one hundred sixty eight palestinians were killed in airstrikes around half of them civilians while militant rocket fire claimed the lives of six israelis despite those numbers hamas believes it came out the winner and some israelis now say the government has failed them publicly or reports. a listener and rachel are packing for the u.s. a cease fire might have been announced but they're not waiting around to see if it works the women were part of an internship program to see what it's like to live in israel so they came they saw and now they choosing to leave this then very anxious

living on the air like knowing that at any moment this sounds like last time we have to go into a bomb shelter and. it's being scared public transportation and staff. the streets of tel aviv are a far cry from the streets of gaza when news of the truce was met with celebrations and fireworks the somewhat muted israeli reaction belies a growing disappointment in the way many here feel the government handled things but i do think that israel finished the operation just so anything to finish it very soon i think we had a good momentum for this operation we have a very good start and it being that if we would have continued we could have achieved a more better result from it's i do think that we could have put some more pressure oh and the organization of hamas. would probably.

keep us from further rocket attacks in the future i hope. the government has good reason to finish it now many military experts and commentators believe the ceasefire was a strategic victory for hamas for two hours after officially came into force rocket fire from gaza continued it seems that the israeli government has given in to some of the demands of hamas and has made an agreement with a terror organization i think a lot of red lines are being crossed among the disappointed i viewed friedman a lone protester on television campus he's frustrated his army didn't into gaza and was one of the first to call his officer to volunteer it's important for our safety for our. so civilians safety and that's what we should do against it i'm prepared today for my country any day any time. but tel aviv insists its operation was a success enabling it to destroy

a significant portion of the masses infrastructure hundreds of rocket launchers and dozens of smuggling tunnels by believe that the ceasefire in the day was just a means to an end and the end was peace and quiet however it came about is less important the result hopefully will be peace and quiet to return to normalcy for israelis and also innocent palestinians on the other side of the border but hamas claims tel aviv capitulated to its demands especially by agreeing to ease its blockade on gaza the group also showed its military prowess by sending rockets for the first time from gaza to jerusalem and later to tel aviv capabilities that have made hamas a real hero of the palestinian resistance the conflict also managed to silence the more moderate palestinian government as must move about us which is why some of pointing out that israel has sent a very dangerous message to the arab world if you want to get something from israel you have to go to war policy r.t. tel aviv. international human rights watch dogs are now investigating the conflict

for war crimes that after a huge amount of collateral damage caused by the airstrikes however israeli defense forces maintain that the operation in gaza only targeted militants documentary filmmaker harry fear has been following events from inside gaza. israel's military operation pillar of cloud has officially ended it started with the assassination of senior hamas commander. barrett here. more than one thousand two hundred palestinians were wounded overwhelmingly children and women and over one hundred sixty seven were killed half of them civilians including journalists israel says when it targeted the top and eleventh floor of this. building and it was targeting hamas as operational communications and injured six when it struck the al could t.v. office just below here. at exactly one fifty three on sunday the occupying forces

started bombing our office this little i channel located on the eleventh floor in the western side of the building and three rockets hit us my colleagues and i was wounded one of the striking things about the eight day war was the number of journalists that were explicitly targeted by israeli forces three appear to have been deliberately assassinated. so. on monday israel called major local news agencies ordering them to evacuate their premises it then targeted a computer center belonging to the t.v. channel based in the building in gaza city setting it to blaze killing two and injuring several stars this is what's left of the second floor of the building in central gaza city reporters without borders says that this building is known in gaza as the reporters building the targeting of any journalist or civilian and international law is a war crime and war reporting is explicitly protected under international

humanitarian law the next day israel targeted a press car carrying two al aksa t.v. cameramen they burned to death when i got in yesterday near our home a car with a press logo drove past with two young men inside all of a sudden we saw a rocket hit the car those inside were killed we pulled one of them out in pieces but couldn't get to the other one he was literally on fire of course it was the press what else can you say. and al could of the most popular t.v. stations in palestine israel says they're not legitimate journalistic enterprises and that they're associated with the islamic jihad group and the quote hamas terror organization. only had a camera where is the press was the european press with the tarka democracy these crimes are being committed against women and children all of this democracy is a sham. israel targeted media towers including the one in which r.t.s.

sister channels office is how no r.t. journalist was injured the targeted journalists according to israeli spokes persons neither journalists nor civilians at all therefore jury least are worried that the atrocities massacres perpetrated by the enemy in gaza will be concealed. israel says the air bombardment campaign was aimed at wiping out a massive infrastructure personnel and capacity garson reporters say that they will never be deterred from reporting their side of the story perry fear for r.t. gaza and earlier this week my colleague kevin owen interviewed an israeli official who placed all the blame for the civilian deaths on hamas. the israeli defense ministry who i represent and indeed israeli public mourning civilian deaths on both sides i've seen it running around the south from bomb shelter to bomb shelter

dodging rockets hearing the cries of israeli civilians and the cries in the wells of the air raid siren when we see the graphic footage of dead children being pulled out and dug out of collapsed buildings to maintain their deaths at the hands of israel and israeli air strikes are the fault of mass. i can tell you genuinely generally breaks my heart you think that we want to see dead children on any side as i said we mourn every loss of life hamas on the other hand celebrating and they are putting their own civilians in danger i cannot tell you how much we desire quiet how much we desire true peace and calm in this region when we facing an enemy that is guilty of a double war crime whereby they hotly to own civilians who are shooting at our civilians for over a decade now we are in this predicament that however with the most strategically surgical precision pinpoint strikes when they're hiding beneath their civilian

population there will be collateral damage. and to egypt now where police in cairo have fired tear gas to disperse crowds as a violent protests enter a fourth day the demonstrations are aimed against president morsi is that the curry granting him sweeping new powers his decisions can no longer be challenged by any authority reports say one person was killed in an attack on a muslim brotherhood office the same is almost movement that backs the president the opposition is staging a sit in at cairo's tahrir square while egypt's top judges have called for a nationwide strike mohamed morsi has defended the moves saying it is protecting the revolution that pave his way to power in his latest comments the leader stressed his new powers are temporary however journalist ahmed forty believes the military ruler in egypt is simply being replaced by another kind of dictatorship. what have mohamed morsi done mobarak in the height of his power could not even dream of achieving morsi is part of the muslim brotherhood and slum or fascist

group they have control over their members and their supporters it is very simple and the country was more than forty five percent of its population are illiterate to control them in the name of religion gyptian is are now seeing clearly they have replaced the military fascist style regime of hosni mubarak into the religious fascist regime of mohamed morsi and the muslim brotherhood egyptians have undertaken a revolution back in january twentieth levon calling for three simple things bread freedom and social justice neither of these three. calls demands that they have called for in the in the revolution have been achieved the state of the egyptian okada me is in shambles the state of freedoms it's been marginalized people wanted to establish a democracy they wanted to establish

a solid to human rights they wanted to have social justice applied not to turn it from the military to the religious fascism. in crunch elections in catalonia pro independence parties have made gains with all of votes now counted the region's president vowed to hold a referendum on breaking off from spain if the separatist coalition won artes and farmers in barcelona for the result. well as expected arthur mass has been reelected as the cattle and president albeit with a reduced majority but the result is at the end of the region's battle for independence and that's because mr mass will now be required to fulfill his pre-election promise of holding a referendum on succession and that would place the region and him on a collision course with the spanish government because they say any referendum would be against the spanish constitution and what's more the prime minister mariano horry will be desperate to keep hold of one of the country's wealthiest

regions as he tries to stave off a european bailout why this all happened today and why people voted in this manner which probably because of the economic crisis for many cattle and this was the tipping point they say that their region is very wealthy it has an economy the size of portugal's but in terms of the number in terms of the size of taxes they pay it's much more to central government than they actually get back from madrid in terms of investments in schools and hospitals so they're annoyed about that and particularly when you consider that unemployment here is around twenty five percent so if a referendum does happen i suppose you could say that you would expect people to vote in favor of it although i say that those people who are against separatism do point out that if catalonia does withdraw from spain it could also mean it has to drop out of the european union and not many people in catalonia would be in favor of that if that turns out to be the case and maybe they would prefer the status quo so there are a lot of ifs and buts but what we do know as

a result of today's election there is a growing sentiment of nationalism and a sense for independence here in catalonia. reporting for us there are no m.r.k. from the european partnership for independence so madrid is using fear tactics regarding the e.u. to try and derail the separatist argument. on the spanish state machinery and trying to fear campaign cancer lance we are european cities i know there's not such press of that that the we would be out of the european union some a half million us people suddenly you know how that would be more difficult actually to manage to good order what is necessary to be out at it's not a consideration we don't believe we're going to be out of the european you know like it's cut plan i'm not going to be outside european union just because we are exercising universal rights as you know restaurant of substance nation we talk about democracy here it's an audience of rich countries we do have side g.d.p.

of two hundred thousand million which is like dead my economy we have to understand that in the european the chemical context we are a country of super rabbit we are not as if should syria that country go into more disunity in europe as budget talks and with no result. the new readers postpone further debates until the new year after failing to work out a deal acceptable to want. and the un says it will send experts to bar brain to oversee the implementation of reforms as protests continue across the country those stories and more in just a few moments right here our take. waves

of corruption are rocking russia hundreds of millions of dollars vanished from apec building projects and russia's got a nice satellite project a real estate scandal has also led to the defense minister being fired note i said fired in russia we hear a lot about corruption scandals and the reaction is usually a firing or a forced resignation and maybe that would be ok another country but russia has big dreams in a big country that has big corruption spoiling all of those dreams a country can't survive when every infrastructure or scientific project is sucked dry from within whether the government is unwilling or unable to sternly punish these offenders is a huge topic by could tell you that if there's no real fear of punishment this will just keep going on for ever perhaps it's time to put a big asterisk for high level corruption next to the moratorium on the death penalty but that's just my opinion.

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whether in chapel hill north carolina or chicago illinois this is our team glad to have you with us talks on europe's budget have been postponed until two thousand and thirteen after days of intense negotiations in brussels came to nothing most you members hoped for an increase in spending while some including britain called for a freeze saying nations simply don't have the money to spare. the details. we're here at the european commission in london but in a week that seeing the brussels budget debate and being in failure is once again britain's place within a year of this back in the spotlight the european leaders also failing to come up with a deal that would please everyone in the budget that would take us from twenty fourteen to twenty twenty that person very much wanted to be seen as leading the way in calling for the cuts indeed in the lead up to the negotiations there was

a lot of concern that we'd see burson isolated from the other twenty six countries whose uncle merkel who is the mediator these negotiations he stepped up to take person side an unlikely form of support perhaps she was very much adamant that person wouldn't be left to fight this alone and exercise their veto as we saw happening in two thousand and eleven and so we saw those other dana countries getting behind britain in this now at the end of it the prime minister said the president didn't get a deal but they didn't get an unacceptable deal but of course that leads us back exactly where we started with nothing happening and so those countries are going to be left to continue the the negotiations to try and hammer out some form of a deal that's acceptable to everyone else some of the we're going to see this budget battle continuing now into the. euro sceptic parties are winning more and

more support as many countries struggled to deal with popular disillusionment with the idea of a united europe independence party leader nigel frog believes britain should say farewell to the you if it wants to prosper. every time the big decisions for the next seven years come up there are always countries that are donor countries that are a bit reluctant and there are always recipient countries that are rather came to push the budget up out of course the french always make sure that the cover to republish he doesn't get reformed the difference this time is that the split isn't just over the budget the split is also about the eurozone as well because it's those northern countries that are members of the euro zone who are really becoming increasingly reluctant despite the fact that the u.k. is the world's sixth biggest trading nation we are actually pretty hip it'd from having our own by the trade deals with any other part of the world that has to be done on our behalf so the u.k.

message is simple we love europe we want to get on with our neighbors we want to trade with them through a simple free trade agreement but then refocus british business to start concentrating on doing more deals around the rest of the world this european model this idea that europe is what matters in the rest of the world can go hang frankly is decades out of date syrian rebels are looking to overthrow president assad have received a serious backing this week the european union welcomed the new syrian opposition group the national coalition as a legitimate representative of the country's people the e.u. ministers stopped short of official diplomatic recognition which must be decided by each member state france and turkey were the first powers to give the new rebel alliance a stamp of approval with britain following suit soon after turkey is now pushing for nato to deploy patriot missiles along its border with syria to defend itself and russia and iran are among the countries strongly opposing the move seeing it as a possible first step towards

a no fly zone and foreign boots on the ground little activist dr abdullah thinks if nato grants turkey's request it would plunge the region deeper into chaos. the quien such missiles is not really going to be for defensive measure what do they need to defend against at least turkey has an army and they can defend against more time for example this is clearly for a larger scale intervention where they want to secure a no fly zone area and we've been hearing the country especially britain and france advocating such intervention recently we've been talking about limited intervention how about how how. comprehensive and how and all out war style this is going to be i think it is not going it's not going to be a war style it will be a war of attrition it's not going to threaten the syrian government of

a sudden intervention they know very well that this is going to ignite a. response from the syrian side that made. a lot of chaos and the region. staying with syria very say rebels have captured a helicopter base on the outskirts of the capital damascus at least fifteen fighters and eight government troops were killed in violence leading up to the takeover recently militias have concentrated on army bases across syria hoping to stop the regime from using them on thursday they took over an artillery out in the oil rich eastern province near iraq. the u.n. human rights commission plans to send a team of experts to bahrain this week amid growing concern the nation is slipping into protest chaos the main opposition party very says it will resume pro-reform demonstrations despite a government ban on gatherings bahrain's uprising has been going on for almost two

years with activists calling for more freedoms and access to jobs and education from their sunni leaders people have been killed and thousands thrown behind bars during the government crackdown on disk. and on wednesday court sentenced to twenty three medics to three months in prison for treating injured protesters and taking part in rallies that comes after a report by a leading human rights group amnesty international which concluded torture and oppression are on the rocks. below we have is that actually the situation is much more spending months ago it's really the terry rate when we're talking about at least twenty four people being killed after the bombing the panic commission of inquiry issued its report last year a ban on not protest at the un to fucked over and only a week ago there were a vocation of national took thirty one opposition activists were also talking about continuous harassment or human rights and one of them is now being the president of the famed center for human rights that was sometimes peace some are two three years

increased and marilee for having exercised its right to freedom of expression and we consider him to be a prisoner of conscience and we are talking about hundreds of hands and hundreds of allegations of torture that that's happening especially since the beginning of two thousand and eleven until now international community has not enough pressure on that one. to ensure that. any independent commission of inquiry recommendations are implemented well it is quite worrying what we are seeing is that a year after that b.p. report was issued we have seen that that main commendations that would ensure a country we can to justice for victims has not been implemented. coming up later this hour money down the drain the new headquarters of the european central bank is dogged by controversy amid accusations the budget is spiraling out of control just like the news own economy plus. it looks like millions of brits should brace themselves for a cold winter as rising energy bills make heating their homes less and less

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